NCFM Press Release San Diego, California, May 7, 2013 The National Coalition For Men (NCFM) proudly announces the first annual International Foreskin Awareness Week, from May 6 to May 12, 2013. Contact: Steven Svoboda, Esq., NCFM PR Director, arc@post.harvard.edu 925-395-2065 “One of NCFM’s goals is to educate the public about the lesser known...
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Endowed: Regulating the Male Sexed Body. By Michael Thomson. New York: Taylor & Francis Group, 2008. 194 pp. www.taylorandfrancis.com. No price stated but website gives price as 18.99 British pounds. Keele University Law Professor Michael Thomson has published his first book, and it’s a flawed yet truly thought-provoking examination of various aspects of the...
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Stop Exploiting Africans — Circumcision Does Not Stop Aides by JerryTheOther The ushers at the Brooklyn Academy of Music were as stunned as Bill and Chelsea Clinton – patrons usually don’t stand mid-performance and shout slogans at the stage – so no one should blame them for not restoring order. That night, March 4th,...
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This brand new Belgian study confirms what the study in Denmark found: ”This study confirms the importance of the foreskin for penile sensitivity, overall sexual satisfaction, and penile functioning. Furthermore, this study shows that a higher percentage of circumcised men experience discomfort or pain and unusual sensations as compared with the uncircumcised population. Before circumcision...
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Female infant circumcision is rightfully illegal but it is Ok to circumcise infant males! Bull. On October 20, 2012, NCFM members Carl Agustsson and Marc Angelucci participated in a protest against infant male genital cutting outside of the national meeting of the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) at the Convention Center in New Orleans,...
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Three months after circumcision ban, German government to legalize rite Cabinet will approve a bill allowing professionally trained mohels to perform brit mila The Times of Israel By Raphael Ahren October 4, 2012 The German government is set to pass legislation that would legalize ritual circumcisions if they are performed by a medical professional,...
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NCFM NOTE: Mr. Svoboda is one of the world’s leading anti-circumcision experts and advocates. He is a Human Rights Attorney and President of Attorneys for the Rights of Children. You can follow his work more closely at the ARC website. Neonatal Circumcision Violates Children’s Rights, Needlessly Amputating Functional Tissue The long awaited circumcision policy...
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latimes.com Letters: Circumcision and STDs August 24, 2012 Re “Circumcision‘s decline could be costly,” Aug. 21 How does it make sense to remove a healthy erotogenic organ from a baby boy to avoid the possibility of contracting sexually transmitted diseases in the future? By that reasoning, why not remove one testicle from every boy...
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A German court just ruled that infant male circumcision is ILLEGAL and can subject the perpetrator to prosecution for ASSAULT (just like for infant female circumcision)! This is a HUGE victory for the anti-circumcision movement and children’s rights. Male circumcision removes the foreskin of the penis. The foreskin contains most of the high sensory...
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Imagine if a male lawmaker joked about reducing girls’ sexual pleasure by removing their clitoral foreskins in order to combat teen pregnancy and “female irresponsibility.” The media would be covering it and that lawmaker would have to publicly apologize. Well that is exactly what Colorado lawmaker Sue Schafer, D-Wheat Ridge (sue.schafer.house@state.co.us) publicly said about boys...
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The Swedish Paediatric Society is now calling circumcision an assault on boys. And, unlike pediatricians in the U.S., the Swedish pediatricians are NOT giving in to the influence of money and religious/political hype. No, this is NOT comparable to decisions about vaccines or non-mutilating things like ear piercing. It’s a permanent surgical removal of...
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Complainant asked the Ombudsman to assess whether circumcision of boys (Circumcision) is the interference with the rights of the child, especially if it is done only for religious reasons and not justified on health grounds. The complainant considered that the interference is harmful to the Slovenian doctors but he do not know all the...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlsUg0sdAtE The video above was uploaded on YouTube July 24, 2009. Dr. Dean Edell discusses the misleading and unsound arguments in the current drive to circumcise Africa. Dr. Edell predicts that massive efforts in Africa to circumcise males will increase the spread of HIV rather than prevent it. On Thursday, December 15, 2011 Zimbabwe’s...
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NCFM NOTE: If you support circumcision, regardless of your rationale, search the Internet for “botched circumcisions”. Look at the pictures. Look at the mutilated little boys, many of whom die from the procedure. Then, please, honestly re evaluate your rationale for supporting circumcision. __________________________________________ Circumcised men have more difficulties reaching orgasm, and their female...
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Attorneys’ for the Rights of a Child announce that NCFM Vice President Marc Angelucci has joined forces with ARC as Gender Equity Strategist. Marc has done awesome work litigating on behalf of gender equity. He has also been extremely active as an intactivist in recent years, publishing a number of letters and opinion pieces,...
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by Marc Angelucci: Today the Los Angeles Daily Journal printed Marc Angelucci’s op-ed responding to the American Medical Association’s irresponsible and unexamined 11/15/11 statement that male circumcision has documented health benefits. The AMA completely disregarded what national medical associations worldwide are saying, and based on some of their responses on Facebook it appears...
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Male circumcision could become a thing of the past in Norway. Professor Trond Markestad, head of the Norwegian Medical Association’s (NMA/Den Norske Legeforeningen) ethics committee, would like to see it replaced. “Inappropriate” “It’s against important medical ethics and is unnecessary. There’s no medical reason for having it done, it’s painful for some days afterwards,...
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The following letter resulted from an inquiry from a new NCFM member (by the way, if you have not joined NCFM you may as well do it now, just click on the join NCFM button to the right and help us help you make the world a better place for all of us…): NCFM...
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Monster Mohel comes for Click’s foreskin – http://www.foreskinman.com/ NCFM PR Director Steven Svoboda, Esq. is Founder and President of Attorneys for the Rights of the child, a leading anti-circumcision organization. In fact, Steven received a human rights award by the cause’s first major organization, the National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Center, founded in...
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NOTE: It needs to be emphasized that NCFM is non partisan. We have members from all political spectrum’s and take great care not to slant things in any particular political direction. However, recently conservative pundits have joined the pro circumcision crowd voicing objection to pending legislation in San Francisco which would...
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